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Chocolate Cake Donuts

Chocolate cake-style donuts made with added cocoa powder. Watch the color closely while frying to prevent over-browning.

40 min
Easy
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Chocolate Cake Donuts

Ingredients

shortening 45 g
sugar 125 g
salt 4 g
non-fat milk powder 24 g
vanilla extract 8 g
whole egg 45 g
egg yolk 15 g
cake flour 375 g
bread flour 125 g
cocoa powder 40 g
baking powder 15 g
baking soda (about 2/3 tsp) 3 g
water 265 g

Instructions

1

Mixing

Use the creaming method (page 168). Mix the dough until smooth, but do not overmix.

2

Shaping and Frying

Same as the cake donuts above. Note: When frying chocolate donuts, watch carefully because it is difficult to tell when they are cooked through by color alone.